worst job?
 

What was everyone's worst job? Mine was bagging groceries. How degrading.

My was at this popular women's retail store. My assistant manager was gay which is no problem at all for me but he would get mad at me every time a guy would come into the store and hit on me. He came up to me at one point and actually said to me, "You're taking away my men!" I'm like, "I'm sorry that they're straight!" Sunday was cleaning day where we would windex all the store windows, mop the floors, dust the displays, and use the high-power cleaners on the countertops. I came in a skirt because my manager, who liked me, told me I would be on register. Well, my assistant manager who hates handed me a toothbrush and told me to clean the floors and toilet with it. :eek: And he was totally serious! I refused so he got on my case for the rest of the day. This little kid came into the store later on and threw-up all over the carpet. My assistant manager told me to clean it. No way! Well, the idiot didn't feel like cleaning it and thought he could get me in trouble. So, he left it there over night. My manager came in the next day and threw a fit. My assistant manager told the manager that he asked me to clean it and that I refused. She was like, "And she shouldn't have to. That's your responsibility!" I quit two days later. Two years later, he's still working there! I thought he'd be fired by now....

My woprst job was at this enviromental type thing for the State of MD, and it was just aweful. I mean we did good for the enviroment, but we worked in the behind the scenes part of parks and stuff. So anyway we would be in rivers, swamps, lakes, surrounded by snakes, mosquitos, bees wasps, everything. It was just icky and nasty.
DGPhoney~

A pool cashier. I had Sundays and one day during the week off. The next day, I always found my books/records screwed up from the day before. Darn bratty kids. Parents who couldn't understand that swimming classes were full. When it rained, we didn't report to work and no pay for those days (gotta love tropical storms and the threat of hurricanes).

personal assistant to hollywood hot shot. he was egomaniacal a-hole who delighted in degrading his staff daily. He screamed at us constantly.

One moment--
On a date, 10pm on a Saturday night, he pages me and demands I immediately come to his house on an urgent issue. I drive 45 minutes to his house to find that what he needed was---

"Amy--when we're in the playroom with the kids and the phone rings we can't get to it before the machine picks up."

what did he need me to do? Unplug the phone in the next room and plug it into the jack in the playroom.

Unbelievable.

But i must have been a masochist, as I worked for him for 3 years. Not always as his asst, but it was always pretty bad.

Mine was working in a factory sanding parts for 8 hours a day 6 days a week. All of that sawdust and stuff, yech

French fries guys at McDonald. It is true, those who work in McDonald will try to avoid if if all possible. Yuck. Also love being burned everyday.

Worked in a hospital kitchen:

Delivering trays to patients - Once walked in on some old guy "pleasuring" himself...ewwww!

Gettin the food trays ready - You would not believe how fast an assembly line goes when you have no clue what the difference between a blue or yellow dot means. Line was constantly stopped due to my having missed putting something on the tray.

Scraping dishes - Half eaten food from sick patients...not fun!

Loading the dishwasher - Actually the best job in the whole place.

Emptying the dishwasher - HUGE machine that threw off temperatures that people wouldn't even enjoy in a sauna, while picking up scalding hot dishes and placing them in the right racks before the dishwasher got jammed, all in the middle of the summer in a non-air conditioned room.

And I thought my worst job was bad.

my worst job would probably have to be while i worked at Bath and Body works.

I hated the on-call shifts. For example let say that on tuesday i was on call from 7-10pm. At 6pm i would have to call in and say "yeah, i have an on call shift tonight, do you need me to come in?" then they would check how busy they were and how many people they had scheduled to work and then they would either say "no, we dont need you" or "yeah, come on in!". It was a pain because like on weekends you couldnt really plan on going out or not because you didnt know if you were going to have to go in to work or not.

Plus, most of the time we werent that busy, except christmas time- so the manager would be the one to work the register and everyone else, which would really only be one other person, would have to restock the entire store. That was annoying because the store is long not wide, so pushing the little cart full of lotions and shower gels around the store was hard. I also had to carry around my little ladder so i could reach the top shelves.

About twice a month we would have to stay until about 1am on a saturday to redecorate and take out new items. I hated this the most. My boss was so rude and so when she gave me the picture of how everything was supposed to look, i carefully arranged everything so it could look perfect. Once i was done i told her to come check it, since she had, and when she got there she told me that since our store is totally opposite from most, i had to turn everything around and what was supposed to be on the left needed to go on the right hand side and etc. I was so mad at her for not telling me in the first place!

The worst thing of all was that when i finally got my other job, where im at now- i told them i couldnt come in to work on monday (because i would be training at the other place) they got mad at me since they knew it was probably for another job. I had already put in my two week notice and so they told me i couldnt apply to any other store in their company like express and structure. Isnt that ridiculous?? Anyway on the paper i had to sign, i explained exactly what happened and that i didnt think that was fair. Hopefully i wont have to work in retail again though- unless i want to!

Well not to out do you KIDs,
Soda Jerk, grease monkey, building combines, I was in the paint dip room, janitor in college dorms, cut grass of course,work in a chemical plant where you took showers at least twice a day and have your prick eared, oops your ear pricked for blood test! God did that job pay good!!!

AH yes but life is good!!!:) :D !

Now one must remeber, I am mechanchally chanlleneged too:)

HE/ She who not works hard knows not what work is! Plato--- Just kidding tom earp!!!!!!!:)

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Lifeguard at a state school for the mentally retarded. Had to clean the poop out of the pool. I loved those kids though.

Telephone survey research for the university..Having to call people on the east coast during a huge hurricane, having old creepy men hit on me and ask me if I have a boyfriend, trying to keep people on the phone for a 20-45 minutes survey when they didn't want to talk to me to begin with, lots and lots of rude people hanging up on me and then still having to call them back 3 more times(gotta love that policy), on national surveys having people think that I was calling from the university of mexico, not NEW mexico..not to mention that I hated the supervisors/my boss, had been there for a year and was never promoted like people who were hired after me, only thing that kept me there was the pay was pretty decent, and it was located directly behind my house..owell.. :)

justamom I think your job is the worst I heard so far.lol

My worst job was actually at K-mart! It was awful. My manager was a lesbian and her girlfriend was the security guard!! The people there were absolutly horrible. I was treated like an it and not even a person!! It was awful. I finally end up getting out of there!! Thats the worst job I ever had!


Nichole

"Sandwich Artist" at Subway. Ugh.

My worst job was probably the one I had this summer. I worked as an assistant to my neighbor who sells Mary Kay cosmetics. I basically did everything she didn't want to do. I had to make all of these cold calls to women I didn't know and ask them if they wanted to try Mary Kay. NOT FUN!!!! I'm a sensitive person so of course I took every hung up phone call to heart!!!!! And to top it all off...the pay wasn't even that good.

Allison

:D This is such a funny thread! My worst job: I worked at the GAP my senior year in hs, and they scheduled me to work on the day of my graduation-even though I had asked off..then my manager got mad when I told him I couldn't work that day! And they would schedule me to work inventory-which was like, from midnight until 2 a.m.-I was like, hello-I go to school! No way am I working that!Everyone who worked there was so rude..and they would assign us, like, parts of the store to work in-so when a customer came to that part of the store, we would like, lurk there and try to make them buy more stuff. I hated that job, because I'm just not pushy! We would also have to mark down on these cards what we had sold for the day, and I would always lie so I wouldn't get lectured...man, I hated that job!!:mad:

XO_Prinecess I hear ya! I worked at the Gap for a month my senior year in college and they yelled at me for being late when i had been in a car accident on my way to work, and then wouldn't give me time off when my grandmother was ill and i wanted to go visit her. And all that stupid clipboard folding! ack! hated it!

lol at sandwich artist!

Sandwich Artist
 

I have to respond to this one because, during my first year as a Rusher, we had a girl come through Rush who put "sandwich artist" down on the resume she sent in to Panhellenic. Since we always look for something on the resumes to help us remember the rushees when they come to a party, that really stood out! She was the "Sandwich Artist" from then on, and I found out later that the other sororities on campus had remembered her the same way. :)

LOL that sucks for her she will always be sandwich artist to every girl that saw her. Some people need to watch how they word stuff or its a perminant nickname for them.

You guys make me feel great about my jobs... worst one ever, though was KFC. Don't get me wrong, I still love the food, but I was 16 and 17 and they would keep me there until midnight LITERALLY! And that is against child labor laws. My legs would hurt from mopping the floors and the grease burns,.. I still have scars! Then when I complained about having to work too late they got mad.
ANother bad one was as a server... I got really sick and was hospitalized and didn't come into work for a week. THe manager went and told all the other servers that I was lying because I didn't call in every day (Sorry, I was in a hospital bed recovering! How dare me!). Then when I came back and confronted her she lied about saying anything and said my doctors note was not for the entire week, only the last day... she couldn't read that it was my DISCHARGE date. I quit and had the General manager read my letter about why I quit. She ended up getting fired for revealing employee confidentiality (My illness) and also for trying to fire me... when i was in the hospital.

I BEAT ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Not to be rude, but I HATE hearing people complain about retail. Here is how I have spent my last two summer and winter breaks: working at an egg processing plant. Yes, that is what I said. You all have probably heard of Egg Beaters-the no-cholesterol egg product that comes in cute little cartons? Well, those eggs have to be cleaned and broken by someone, and that someone is me! If you have read my other posts, you know I'm from Southern Illinois, where basically you can work at WalMart or wait tables for people who think $3 is a generous tip. Riiiiiiiiight. ;) I get up at 5:30 Monday-Friday and shlep in that slop for 8 hours a day (or 9, plus 6-11 on Saturdays if we get a rush order), five (or six) days a week. And for $7/hour. And no employee discount to show for it. :rolleyes:

There are three jobs that I do (we rotate-there are three people on a machine and we switch every 15 minutes to prevent repetitive motion injury...).
1-take stacks of trays of eggs (180 or 210 at a time-about 20 lb. each) and put them on a ramp, put the pallet on a stack when it's empty, dump buckets of inedible eggs (this is egg from shells that break during the cleaning process, or eggs that have blood in them-ewwww), etc.
2-move to the other end of the ramp and take the trays of eggs one at a time and put them on a conveyor belt that takes them into a cleaning machine
3-stand at the other end of the cleaning machine and pick off the eggs that didn't get all the crap (and I mean that in the most literal sense of the word...these are from chickens, you know...) washed off in the first pass, or have blood in them (they roll over a light and you can see through the shell for this)

Oh, and in this process, I get raw egg splashed all over me-you can't begin to realize what this smells like. In my hair, on my skin, you get the picture.

The only thing that makes the job bearable is that my best friend since 6th grade works on the same machine. And it is a 4 minute drive from home, as opposed to the waitressing jobs, which are half an hour.


The Gap doesn't sound so bad now, does it?
;)

ilovemyglo-
I actually got my manager in trouble too for revealing employee confidentiality. This past summer, I worked at Abercrombie for $6 an hour. It really sucked because I had worked at fine departments stores like Bloomingdale's in past for over $9 an hour. It was so hard to find a job this summer....it's Orlando so it's not that hard to find some college student who's willing to work for minimum wage. And, there's no Bloomingdale's in Orlando. So, I took the job at Abercrombie which was a 45 minute drive plus $4 in tolls. On top of it, my car eats gas so I was filling up twice a week. Abercrombie purposely highers 50 plus employees in their stores. Do the math: 50 plus employees...that means that each person will work a max of 15 hours that week. But, almost every month, the floor set changes and you have to buy all new clothes...Abercrombie does not allow you to wear sale items. Their clothes aren't cheap and the employee discount bites. So, I'd spend about $300 there every month just so I'd have clothes to wear to work! So, 15 hours a week, 4 weeks in a month, $6 an hour, $300 in clothes...I'm only making $60 profit. Abercrombie really doesn't lose that much money on their employees. Plus, that $60 went to tolls and gas to get to my job...I was making no money. I ended up in debt from working there and had to beg my parents to help me out! I called my manager and explained the situation to him. He was all pissed. He went and told my co-workers the reason why I quit. One of them came up to me on campus one day and said, "I heard you quit because you had all these bills and you were in debt...." Called HR that afternoon. I know that manager got a written warning for that. Hah Hah. And to those who even consider working for that company, here's a little phrase for you that all Abercrombie ex-employees know: "Working for Abercrombie and Fitch is not a job, it's a hobby."

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Tie between cashier at Sports Authority and restaurant hostess. The cashier job was sooooooo boring. The hostess jobs were EXTREMELY stressful, what's worse people think that the job ONLY consists of taking people to their tables/booths, that's the tip of the iceberg. :rolleyes:

Phone Based Research!!! Sucks!!!

The summer before my freshman year of college I worked for an environmental group and I had to go door to door asking people to donate money to environmental causes. I'm not talking about 5 dollars either, this group expected us to collect $50+ per family. It was such a sham too because 40% of the money donated went straight into our pockets and even more went to "administrative costs." Very little money went to helping the environment. I was fired after the second day because I wasn't aggressive enough. I should have reported them to the Better Business bureau for running a shady charity.

The next summer I worked for a group that sells knives door to door. Yup, knives. I was afraid of carrying knives around all day so I quit before training ended.

I have to echo your sentiments here. As soon as I turned 16, I wanted a job (actually i really wanted the paychecks... :D ) I grew up in a small town so all there was basically was fast food. I worked at Popeye's Chicken which was about the same as KFC... I would stay there till all hours going back home smelling like chicken even though I was just a cashier... had to mop floors.. put up with some mean people, and yes, those ever-wonderful grease burns. After awhile, I just couldn't put up with it anymore!!

I don't eat the food anymore, but if there is one thing I miss about working there, it's the rest of the crew. I worked with the most awesome group of people (minus one of the managers...)and we have all done our best to keep in touch (one of them is getting married this month and I'm going to see her on her big day!!!)

Were they Cutco knives?! I know so many people who did that!

I worked for a telemarketing company, inbound calls only but since I was on the graveyard shift I got some freaky calls. I had to take calls for Providian (credit card with ridiculously high interest), Nads, Epil Stop, oh yea, and the Girls Gone Wild videos! This one guy would call and start asking you about your toes and stuff! "Do you paint your toenails?" "Can I suck on your toes?" and through this you had to try to get him to at least name a product because otherwise my company would't get paid! I think the worst thing of all though was that the shift was totally non-flexible. You got your schedual and it was the same every week. You couldn't take off unless you found someone to cover for you (and no one wanted to cover graveyard) and you couldn't request any time off (without a replacement) till you had been there for 6 months! Argh! Plus, I have a MAJOR dust allergy and their building triggered at least one asthma attack a night. After it sent me to the hospital I quit but they have it on record as me being fired because when I called in sick to say why I couldn't come in on my last day the computer wasn't working properly so it didn't get entered in right. GRRRRRRRRRR!:mad: :mad: :mad:

Bagging groceries sucked. I had to take them out to the car too and weren't alowwed to tiip. Racking gravel/building a golf course was no fun either.